Miscellaneous

Why isn't this part of the main Debian distribution?

After sending an official intent
to package Winie, I never finished having a look at licensing
issues (due to the JDK 1.2) nor did I think about how to correctly
package it using the source. The package provided here works, but it's
a quick packaging of the binary distribution, not suitable for the
distribution in Debian. Send me an email if you are interested in
maintaining an official Debian package.

How is the package built?

Here are some quick notes I made:

Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:57:48 -0500
From: Hugo Haas <hugo@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20010310115747.A11229@w3.org>
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How to create packages:
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I took the ZIP file, rewrite the binaries (jwget, jwput, jwdel and
winie) so that they would work once installed in /usr/bin, created the
Debian control files under /debian, and ran:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
The tree I ran it on is at [1].
Note that the good way to build this package would be to have a source
tree, generate a diff from this tree containing the changes made to
build the package and then compile the program when the package is
generated, but this is good enough for now.
This generated the two packages[2,3].
How to create an apt-getable index:
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I wrote an override file[4] and generate a package index:
dpkg-scanpackages . debian-override > Packages
gzip -9c Packages > Packages.gz
Only Packages.gz[5] is mandatory, but the CVS diff for binary files
doesn't let you see changes easily, so I kept both.
[..]
1. http://www.w3.org/2001/03/winie_1.0.8-2.tar.gz
2. http://www.w3.org/2001/03/lib-w3c-http-java_1.0.8-2_all.deb
3. http://www.w3.org/2001/03/winie_1.0.8-2_all.deb
4. http://www.w3.org/2001/03/debian-override
5. http://www.w3.org/2001/03/Packages.gz